Tepidibacillus infernus sp. Nov., a moderately thermophilic, selenate-and arsenate-respiring hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a gold mine, and emended description of the genus Tepidibacillus

Olga A. Podosokorskaya*, Alexander Y. Merkel, Sergey N. Gavrilov, Igor Fedoseev, Esta Van Heerden, Errol D. Cason, Andrey A. Novikov, Tatyana V. Kolganova, Aleksei A. Korzhenkov, Elizaveta A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Ilya V. Kublanov

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Abstract

A novel aerotolerant anaerobic, moderately thermophilic, organotrophic bacterium, strain MBL-TLPT, was isolated from a sample of microbial mat, developed under the flow of subsurface water in TauTona gold mine, South Africa. Cells of the new isolate were flagellated, spore-forming rods, 0.25-0.5 μm in width and 3-15 μm in length. Strain MBL-TLPT grew in the temperature range from 25 to 58 °C, pH range from 5.6 to 8.8 and at NaCl concentration from 0 to 85 g l1. The isolate was able to ferment yeast extract and mono-, oligo-and polysaccharides, including starch and xanthan gum. The G+C content of the DNA was 35 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences of strain MBL-TLPT and relatives showed its affiliation to the genus Tepidibacillus. Tepidibacillus fermentans STGHT was its closest relative (97.1% identity of 16S rRNA gene sequences). Based on phylogenetic analysis and the physiological properties of the novel isolate, we propose a novel species, Tepidibacillus infernus sp. nov., with MBL-TLPT(=DSM 28123T=VKM B-2949T) as the type strain.

Original languageEnglish
Article number001166
Pages (from-to)3189-3194
Number of pages6
JournalInternational Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Volume66
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2016
Externally publishedYes

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Keywords

  • Anaerobes
  • Deep subsurface
  • Gold mines
  • Hydrolytics
  • Respiration with exogenic electron acceptors
  • Thermophiles

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